President Ho Chi Minh statue in inaugurated in DPRK
VGP - General Secretary To Lam and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation attended the inauguration ceremony of the statue of President Ho Chi Minh at the premises of the Vietnamese Embassy in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on October 10 (local time).
General Secretary To Lam (second from R) and Cho Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau, Secretary of the Central Committee, and head of the Organisation and Guidance Department of the WPK (R) cut the ribbon to inaugurate statue - Photo: VNA
The event took place on the occasion of the Vietnamese Party leader's state visit to the DPRK where he will also attend the ceremony marking the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Vietnamese Ambassador to the DPRK Le Ba Vinh recalled that Viet Nam and the DPRK established diplomatic relations 75 years ago, on January 31, 1950, with their traditional friendship personally founded by President Ho Chi Minh and President Kim Il Sung.
Since then, the two Parties, States, and people of Viet Nam and the DPRK have continuously nurtured and strengthened their long-standing friendship and cooperation, marked by mutual support and solidarity in the struggles for national liberation and socialist construction in each country.
He also recalled that during his official friendship visit to the DPRK in 1957, President Ho Chi Minh affirmed that although the two countries are far apart geographically, their hearts are close, and though separated by thousands of miles, they are bound together like dear brothers.
General Secretary To Lam (R) and Cho Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau, Secretary of the Central Committee, and head of the Organisation and Guidance Department of the WPK, shake hands in front of the statue. (Photo: VNA)
Earlier the same day, General Secretary To Lam visited and met with officials and staff of the Vietnamese Embassy in Pyongyang./.
